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Annals of the South African Museum. 



Barbus vulneratus, Bouleng., Ann. and Mag. N.H. (7), xvi., 

 1905, p. 45, and Cat. Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., p. 148, fig. 125 

 (1911): 



Depth of body about equals length of head, which is 34 to 4 times 

 in total length excluding caudal. Snout rounded, 3 to 4 times in 

 length of head ; eye 4 to 5^ times in length of head, interorbital 

 width 3 to 3?- times; mouth small, inferior; lips moderate. Two 

 barbels on each side, posterior longer than anterior, and 4 to 1| 

 times diameter of eye. 



Dorsal iii 7 ; equally distant from nostrils, eye, or occiput and 

 from root of caudal, border straight ; last simple ray not enlarged, 

 not serrated, | to ^ length of head. Anal iii 5 ; not reaching caudal. 

 Pectoral | to f length of head, not reaching ventral; base of latter 



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FIG. 73. Barbus vulneratus. 



wholly or partly anterior to dorsal. Caudal peduncle If times to 

 twice as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 32-34^-^, 3i-4| 

 between lateral line and ventral, 12-14 round caudal peduncle. 



Colour (of preserved specimens), brown above, lightish beneath ; 

 a dark streak or spot through scales forming a longitudinal streak 

 from origin of lateral line to caudal. 



Four specimens, ranging from 42 to 67 mm. in length, from 

 Yokeskei Eiver (tributary of the Crocodile Eiver), Transvaal. 



Three specimens, ranging from 60-73 mm. in length, from 

 Baakens Eiver, Port Elizabeth, Cape Provinces (Port Elizabeth 

 Museum). 



Two specimens, 52 mm., 78 mm. in length respectively, from 

 Zwartkops Eiver, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province. 



It is recorded also from Zonder Einde Eiver, Cape Province. 



